Podcast: Effectively Managing Kidney Patients’ Transitions of Care

Transitions of care is a big concept: it covers the set of actions and care involved when a patient moves within or between health care settings, across states of health and between clinicians. Listen to this podcast, in which Ananda Harrison interviews Bryan Becker, MD, on the importance of managing a patient’s transition of care and the physician’s role in this process.

Bryan Becker, MD, MMM, FACP, CPE

Bryan N. Becker, MD, is chief medical officer of DaVita Integrated Care and has nearly 20 years of physician executive experience. He received his AB in English at Dartmouth College and MD from the University of Kansas, and, after training at Duke and Vanderbilt, he led the nephrology group at the University of Wisconsin and developed a new kidney care venture called Wisconsin Dialysis, Inc. He also served as CEO at the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics and president of the National Kidney Foundation.
Before joining DaVita Kidney Care, Dr. Becker served as President of the University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) Care Network, a more than 1,000 physician clinical integration organization, and Vice President, Clinical Integration and Associate Dean, Clinical Affairs at UCM. Twitter: @bnbeckermd